After an active rest day yesterday with Cécile and Jamie in Vienne and Lyon, I was up early this morning for a longer run. With 70K bagged for the week I wanted to push out past 20K this morning and get a good two hours of running in to close out another 90-100K week....

Just gonna say it: Empire Burlesque is a solid album. Sure, it is no Blood on the Tracks or Highway 61 but it is solid. I had it on this morning as I headed out for the run I needed to get in before yet another big day. Jamie is spending Sunday with me and I have to...

Jamie was off at fencing this morning and Cécile was back to work so I had a little time free to fit in a run. As I’m still getting into things I was only looking to get in a nice 10K loop or so, and as long as I fit in a little climbing I would be happy. I...

A long day with an early start which meant that I didn’t really have a lot of time to fit in my run. Still, where there’s a will there is a way and so I found myself running in the Parc de la Tete D’Or in the early evening while Jamie was at fencing....

H.L. Mencken once offered this definition of democracy: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. The French people voted in a young, confident Emmanuel Macron in 2017 and, among his promises to the...